Mr. Romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.

The Romney campaign said that to the farking New York Times on the record.

"You put $90 billion - like 50 years worth of tax breaks - into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1," he told the president earlier this month in Denver. "I had a friend who said: 'You don't just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers.' "

Too much trouble to report that Romney lied so hard on this singer that his campaign had to backtrack an hour later? For once in his life, Romney deserves everything he's gotten.

He tried being nice and compromising, and they walked all over him and then complained he wasn't a bigger doormat (2010 unemployment extension, the continued existence of Guantanamo Bay prison, the removal of single-payer as an option for discussion on the healthcare bill). At some point, you have to start hitting back. Good on him.

I'm still of the opinion that he's going to change dramatically in his second term. Not needing to worry about re-election with an improving economy and significantly reduced military involvement means that there's a LOT of leeway to call crap out.

Republicans tend to believe crazy bullshiat and wild conspiracy theories. They won't accept any conflicting evidence that might change their minds. In fact, they regularly reject educational research, science, nonpartisan media, ANYTHING that goes against their crazy beliefs. What can do you do with people like that, other than mock them mercilessly?

Lumpmoose:When your opponent suddenly acquires all of your policies in the most cynical campaign ploy in memory, there's really no other way to respond.

And how soon America forgets:

---Mr. Romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.---

The Romney campaign said that to the farking New York Times on the record.

I didn't think politics could ever sink so low. And the surprising thing is that the man claims to be a devout man of God. The Book of Mormon. Really great stuff, if this is the kind of people it churns out.

HeartBurnKid:Yeah, that's what happens when your opponents take advantage of your high-minded rhetoric to paint you as Satan himself and organize a populist uprising against you.

I wouldn't exactly call thousands of slack-jawed yokels who'd vote for Darth Vader if he had an (R) next to his name being funded by a handful of paleoconservative billionaires, and given limitless media attention by one outlet, to give the appearance of a populist "uprising"...well, a populist uprising.

farkplug:Lumpmoose: When your opponent suddenly acquires all of your policies in the most cynical campaign ploy in memory, there's really no other way to respond.

And how soon America forgets:

---Mr. Romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.---

The Romney campaign said that to the farking New York Times on the record.

I didn't think politics could ever sink so low. And the surprising thing is that the man claims to be a devout man of God. The Book of Mormon. Really great stuff, if this is the kind of people it churns out.

Considering God intended women to get raped and impregnated, it's not a far stretch to think God is cool with focusing on zingers rather than policy in a debate.